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Being an Administrator
To do a Web based project, you need to develop skills as a computer
administrator as well as a programmer. You need to:
- Install, configure and maintain a Web server (Tomcat)
- Install, configure and maintain a database server (MySQL)
- Use systems which don't come in neat "InstallShield" packages
- Put together a wide variety of different packages
- Debug a system containing many pieces which you didn't write
It is important to realise that you don't get many project marks for
the effort you put in on this.
Moral: be prepared to put in a lot of initial effort for little
reward, make sure you do not spend too long on it, and get plenty of help and
advice to prevent wasted effort.
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